Allegory (art term)
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See also: [Allegory (LIT)]
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Allegory

Briefly: Allegory is the symbolic or non-represenational presentation of
         ideas. For example in literature, Albert Camus
uses the allegory of the alienation of the protagonist to representat
the humanisation of people during the Nazi era. Overtly the story is
about how 

Extract from:  John Milner, Art, War and Revolution: 1870-1871 -- 
Myth, Reportage, and Reality, LCCN DC 525.M55 (2000), 
??-ISBN--??, (Yale Univ Press, China, 2000).

(freely reformated)

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The Usual Suspects

[Gustave Courbet]